Three cases of potentially deadly rat lungworm infections confirmed in Hawaii
Health officials have now confirmed a total of three cases of rat lungworm disease in travelers who spent time in Hawaii. A report from the …
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NASA sent a helicopter on a nosedive to test Mars landing hardware
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission could teach us some incredible new things about our planetary neighbor, and even provide us with valuable insights that will shape …
The FDA just approved a baby-saving drug that carries an obscene $2.1 million price tag
You can’t put a price on life, but that isn’t stopping Swiss drugmaker Novartis from trying. The company just scored approval from the U.S. Food …
Very good boy crashes high school graduation, ‘waters’ the plants in the middle of class photo
Graduation is a big day in the life of a high school student. It’s the final step in a journey that takes years and regardless …
Boston man says someone broke into his house, cleaned it, then left
Discovering that someone had broken into your home while you were away is a terrifying thing. What did they want? What did they break, rummage …
The world’s smallest McDonald’s just opened, but only bees are invited
If you’re looking for a McDonald’s restaurant in Sweden, you just gained another option. A first-of-its-kind McDonald’s location was recently built in the country, and …
NASA places its first order for Lunar Gateway components
NASA has big plans for returning to the Moon. Whether it can be done within the next five years, as the current administration desires, is …
102-year-old woman confesses to murdering her 92-year-old neighbor
In a tragic and absolutely bizarre murder case out of France, a woman is now the prime suspect in the murder of her residential care …
The largest underwater eruption ever detected produced a brand new underwater volcano
Months ago, a bizarre hum rippled through the waters far off the coast of Africa, traveling around the world and drawing the attention of scientists …
NASA’s Kepler just spotted 18 new Earth-sized planets, but only one is worth dreaming about
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope may be dead, but that doesn’t mean that the wealth of data it gathered doesn’t still hold some untold surprises. A …
Discovery of billion-year-old fungi changes our understanding of life on Earth
When scientists search for species that lived hundreds of millions of years ago they’re not always just looking for ancient animals. Life on Earth has …
NASA needs your help to bring an asteroid sample back to Earth
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has already accomplished a lot since arriving at the space rock known as Bennu late last year. The spacecraft successfully entered orbit …
NASA will reveal plans for its ‘Lunar Gateway’ today, and you can watch live
Despite plenty of skepticism over whether or not they can pull it off, NASA seems determined to make it back to the Moon by 2024 …
Scientists studied baby shark vomit and realized they eat a ton of birds
When you think of the diet of a shark you probably don’t imagine the top-tier ocean predators feasting on birds — and not sea birds, …
Measles spreads to another state, with half of the U.S. now reporting new cases
With new reports of measles popping up on a daily basis it was all but inevitable that this day would come, and here we are: …
Mysterious ozone-destroying pollution has been traced to China
Last year, a report surfaced that suggested someone, somewhere was producing a huge amount of an ozone-destroying chemical which had already been banned worldwide way …
Massive double asteroid will cruise by Earth later this week
Most space rocks that pass nearby Earth are solo travelers making their way around the Sun and slipping past our planet as they do so. …
NASA will send your name to the Red Planet on the Mars 2020 rover
Mars 2020 is shaping up nicely, with NASA recently revealing that its rover-hauling spacecraft is essentially complete and currently undergoing testing well ahead of its …
Ravens have emotional quirks similar to humans, study finds
Humans have very advanced brains — or at least we think that’s the case based on what we know about life from an admittedly small …
Now there’s a nasal spray that rapidly crushes depression
Depression affects the lives of a great many people and, while there are plenty of options on the table as far as treatment, many are …
Surprise! When Los Angeles cleaned up its air, childhood asthma cases dropped
Breathing in toxic fumes every day is bad for you, and when you take those fumes away, you feel better. That’s the gist of a …
Google built an AI that detects lung cancer better than human doctors
Science fiction has taught us to fear the inevitable rise of digital brains, and while it’s true that handing too much power to machines of …
Researchers say a tiny planet slammed into the Moon a long time ago
Earth’s Moon only ever shows us one face. It’s locked into its current orientation, with a permanent nearside and farside, but it wasn’t until the …
NASA teases completed Mars 2020 spacecraft
NASA’s Curiosity rover, InSight lander, and Reconnaissance Orbiter are all doing remarkable work on and around the Red Planet, but that’s not stopping scientists from …
NASA’s floating robot ‘bee’ is alive and well aboard the ISS
NASA is betting big on the future of space robots. As automated gadgets become more and more advances, scientists are starting to imagine how robots …
NASA’s Juno just discovered that Jupiter and Earth have something important in common
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has delivered some of the most stunning glimpses of the gas giant that mankind has ever seen, but it’s also taught scientists …
Japan just sent a privately-funded rocket into space for the first time ever
SpaceX is already a household name around the globe, but there’s no shortage of other startups vying for their slice of the private spaceflight pie. …
Scientists invented a wearable band that controls your body temperature like a personal thermostat
Everyone loves to be comfortable, but what you consider to be a perfect temperature might be drastically different than the temperature preferred by a person …
Archaeologists discover bizarre ‘Jars of the Dead’ hidden in Laos
Just like today, people who lived hundreds of years ago had rituals and traditions associated with death. Methods of burial or tributes to deceased individuals …
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just hit an absolutely crazy milestone
Of all the pieces of hardware that NASA has sent to Mars, we don’t hear about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter nearly as much as we’d …
